Dougal Campbell spoke Saturday @bhamwordcamp on the future of WordPress and the future looks very bright indeed.

As a former WordPress developer. Working on both the WordPress project itself as well as developing many WordPress plugins. He was able to give the attendees a view into the future of the popular blogging platform.

Version 2.7

Coming in the future

Backend UI redesign

Due to the number of people who thought the admin page redesign could have been better. The team has decided to rework the UI to be more inline with their users requests.

Upgrade API – themes and plug-ins on the fly

This sounds like a very exciting feature making the managing of updated very easy.

Quick Edit – Inline Editing

Think Dreamweavers inline editing feature.

Improved Comments – Threaded comments

Close comments on Old Posts

Giving users the ability to say comments for posts older than a month old are now closed.